MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202544083775 A) filed by Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on Sept. 3, 2025, for 'data contact means and vehicle communications network comprising data contact means.'

Inventor(s) include Klingler, Dominik; Wuerker, Robert; and Bergner, Bert.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A data contact means (300, 400, 500, 900) has a first and a second contact module (100, 200). The first contact module (100) has a first contact housing (104) having a first contact element (101). The second contact module (200) has a second contact housing (204) having a second contact element (201). The first and the second contact housing (104, 204) each enclose a contact receiver. The first contact housing (104) has a first recess (107) extending through the first contact housing (104) and arranged laterally on the first contact housing (104), and the second contact housing (204) has a second recess (207) extending through the second contact housing (204) and arranged laterally on the second contact housing (204). The first recess (107) leads into the first contact receiver, and the second recess (207) leads into the second contact receiver. The first and the second recess (107, 207) are each arranged on the same side of the first and the second contact housing (104, 204) and are designed to receive a bridge-spring contact (301)."

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